Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20

TCheers. Our countrymen in Canals
nave had much more serious and sub
stantial social and political risks than thai
to face in taking our part and arraying
themselves with us against the powerful
influences which ere against US in Can
ada to-day. 1t is easy enough to
find superficial friends, but this
is matter which tests to
the core the sincerity and sympathy
of our people in Canada in their love OF
Ireland. Cheers and applause. The
old instincts of your Irish hearts burst
through every difficulty and danger to be
with US in our struggle in behalf of poor
and oppressed Ireland. Loud cheers and
some boots God bless you aud God
prosper you for the good will the whole
of the Canadian people have shown
! cheers, for the fair play they have
! given me- Renewed cheers The more
! this subject is argued out in reasonable
WAY by reasonable men and by intelligent
and liberty loving men, the more will the
stamp Of public condemnation and repro
baton be put upon Lord LansdoWne' s
unjust action cheers and some hooting :,
and the sooner will the poor people OF
/ Lugea Curran return once more to their
humble homes in peace and in triumph
with blessings on your heads.
/ Loud and prolonged cheering,
mingled with some boots. ]
A DIsoRDERLY MEETING.
TORONTO, ONT, May i7.-Never in the
worst days of the Belfast disorders was 2
scene of more disgraceful rowdyiam ex-
hiDited than that shown this afternoon in
Queens park, where crowd of Toronto
Orangemen attempted to storm the plat
form and failing in that, to choke off all
possibility Of 0'Brien being heard by
keeping up a continual din of grooming,
Missing and cries of "God save the
Queen" "Rule Brittanis." 1t was
o'clock when the crowd had
about fully collected and it then
seemed fair estimate to set the
number present at $4,000, although peo-
pie Kept pouring in in such floods from
ell quarters after the meeting had begun,
that there were times when 10000 persons
would not be an over estimate. Many
1 banks in the city were closed and the
students of the university were let loose.
Many of these mingled with crowds OF
eSperate-lOOkingr oughs whose only glory
in life seemed to be row. the first de-
monstratiOn came from q solitary man st
the left hand side of the platform, who
stood upon the stump Of 8 tree and began
grooming at the meeting and 81 those on
the platform, as though his life depended
on the effort Near him was woman wav-
ing a green branch in her hand, and no
sooner had she seen the obstreperoUs
Orsngemen than she ran
THE BUTT or THE 7wIG
down his throat, Whicl effectuaIly ChOked
off the dIstuTber. amid q roar of applause
from the crowd and cries Of "Gud save
Ireland" A rush was made for the
woman, but she was among her friends,
and the surging wave of thousands drove
back her WOuld-be asSailarts. At this
moment Mr.. O'Brien entered the park in
a carriage. One hundred and fifty police
men in charge of Lieutenant Grassett
were scattered through the crowd or
were drawn up in files on the out
skirts. Sergeant Seymour was IN charge
of the squad of mounted men,
and when the disturbance and
attempted breaking up OF the
meeting took place the officers most de-
terminedly took their place and remained
there from the beginning TO the end of
both O'Brien's and KiIbride's speeches.
The policemen quietly folded their arms
and said not word. In all the disturb
ers did not number more than sixty per
sons, and many of them were armed with
sticks. Two sycamore trees in front of
the platform were taken possession of by
q crowd Of young rOughs, who Kissed out
INTO THE SPEAKERS FACES
during the greeter part of the time until
g few powerful men among the National
lists caught hold of the trunks of the
trees and shook the disturbers to the
ground. This seemed to anger the Or
angemen, who knocked down one or two
of the Nationalist with the blows of
their clubs The Nationists in return
used their fists very effectively.
Police Inspector Archibald and Dep
uty Chief Stuart, who were in company
with Colonel Grossett smiled in the most
good natured way and used 20 effort at
ali to drive eff the rowdieS who pressed |
with might and main to reach the front |
Of the platform, but in vain. With the /
exception of couple of charges by single /
policemen on horseback, no attempts |
was made to interfere with the rioters
The representatives of American news |
papers who surrounded 0'Brien on the |
platform were plying their pencils vigor-
Ously. Presently the Orangeme9, by one |
supreme effort, were nearly gaining their
point by displscing the Nationalist and |
reaching the front of the platform, when |
the Americans signaled TO the Nation
alists
TO KEEP THEIR PLACES.
This suggestion which was entirely in
the interest of peace, because if the |
Orangemen reached that spot, bloody |
time would certainly have ensued, so
angered some Of the policemen on the |
platform that they threatened to !
throw them head over heels to the |
ground if they attempted any such |
sigma! again. The Orangemen roared |
hoarse amid the frantic cheers
and yellers who shouted in derisive cheers
al those on the platform: ''Pay your rent!'
"Hurrah for LGGsdoWne," and "God
save the Queen!" The first signal to in
terrupt by grooming ana singing "God
save the Queen" was given on the APP
pearance of J "A. Mulligan, President of the
local branch of the League, as
chairman of the meeting, but he held out
sturdily, as did O'Brien and Kil0ride, and
IN the end the following resolution was
passed, amid an outburst of cheering
from the thousands and grosns from the
groups of OTangemen:
That this meeting of the citizens
of Toronto warmly sympathize with
the mission OF Mr.. O'Brien, NJ.
p, IL Canada, and take this opportunity
Of entering a hearty protest against the
unjust treatment OF the tenants at Lugga
Curran by Lord Lansdowne.
AN INTERRUPTED SPEECH.
This was how Mr.. Mulligan began his
speech: Fellow citizens-[Groans and